At last, South Africa are able to look themselves in the eye

“You play for South Africa for a reason. It’s not by chance.” – Kagiso Rabada

Telford Vice / London

IT was April 23, 1992, long enough ago for apartheid still to be the law of the land in South Africa. For Nelson Mandela to have been out of prison for just more than two years but not yet elected president. For ordinary black and brown South Africans to hope — to expect, even — that a better life was imminent.

But it was not long enough ago for South Africa to remain banished from inte...